Donald Trump was apparently concerned that China was going to
send some serious weapons to the United States.
And the weapon would be hurricanes, literally.
He believed that China had the capacity the ability,
the capability to send hurricanes to the United States.
This was during the beginning of his term.
Of course we're learning about this now.
Thanks to former Defense Secretary Mark esper and here's what we know.
Trump's question to other officials was whether China had the technology to
create manmade hurricanes and
then to deliberately send them to the United States.
The repeated inquiries led to some in the administration
referring to it as the then president's hurricane gun thing.
In fact, one former official who spoke to Rolling Stone said this.
It was almost too stupid for words.
>> [LAUGH] >> I did not get the sense he
was joking at all.
Another source also said, I kept it together until I got back to my office.
I do not know where the then president would have heard about that.
He was asking about it around the time maybe a little before.
He asked people about nuking hurricanes and
he did in fact think of nuking hurricanes.
That was something that we covered at the time.
But he believes in all sorts of crazy things, including the idea that wind
might actually lead to severe consequences for your health.
You don't remember that.
Let's take a look.
>> If you have a windmill anywhere near your house, congratulations.
Your house just went down 75% in value.
>> [LAUGH] >> And they say the noise causes cancer.
You tell me that one, okay?
The thing makes sure that and of course it's like a graveyard for birds.
>> I just wanna apologize for
misinterpreting what Trump had said years ago.
It's not that the wind from the windmills cause cancer.
It's that the sound from the windmills.
>> Yes. >> Cause cancer, yeah.
>> It was really ironic too because he accidentally gave cancer
to all of his supporters there because he said, the same noise.
What are you doing?
That's a super spreader event for cancer, okay?
To be fair to Trump [LAUGH] I'm not gonna be fair to, okay?
[LAUGH] So, let's just skip that part.
By the way, I actually will be later in this story.
But how would China make hurricanes?
He's like, I don't know everything is made in China.
What if a billion people got a billion people?
What if a billion people got together and were like,
[SOUND] [LAUGH] would it make a hurricane?
Could it could, all right?
No, seriously, I will be a friend of Trump in that,
notice like everybody's saying hurricane gun, but Trump never said hurricane gun.
Read the story carefully.
The his staffers started calling it Trump's hurricane gun thing.
He Trump had the theory that China was manufacturing hurricanes and
sending it over to us.
But he didn't call it a hurricane, but on the hurricane nuke.
That is now multiple sources confirming he's like just sending two hurricanes,
we don't like the hurricanes.
Can we nuke them?
And, in case you don't remember that story,
his staffers had to explain to the moron.
So, if we launched a nuclear missile into a hurricane, the only thing that
it would do is to release the radiation inside a hurricane headed towards us.
And then it would swirl the radiation around and
then spread it all across America.
So that's why it's not a great idea.
So you're saying we shouldn't do it?
Yes, Mr. President, we are saying you shouldn't nuke a hurricane.
That will not help.
It will be counterproductive.
But look, it's easy to make fun of the guy.
But, Man, he won the presidency once and
then he nearly wanted a second time.
So, a lot of republicans saw that and thought that's my boy.
>> I know, and right now, I mean a million things could change from now till 2024.
But it looks like he's poised to win again.
>> Yeah, God help us.
>> And it's I know, I know.